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Ted Turner’s Plans To Save The World
FORBES MAGAZINE At age 72 Ted Turner isn’t quite as pugnacious as he once was. He no longer refers to pro-lifers as “bozos.” It’s been years since he challenged onetime media rival Rupert Murdoch to a fistfight. And while he is a true believer in climate change, he’s...
At Home With Ted Turner
AMERICAN COWBOY Ted Turner, Alder, Mont. 71, is not a cowboy. “I am a bison man,” he says. The famously outspoken media mogul and philanthropist has, in fact, been a driving force behind the resurgence of bison production in the United States. Managing editor Tom...
How Ted Turner has built success by sticking to a few key principles
Smart Business Magazine The halls and rooms that comprise Turner Enterprises Inc. are more than simply office space for the entity that runs famed businessman Ted Turner’s operations. They’re partially a tribute to Turner, chairman of the organization, featuring...
The 50 Who Made Atlanta: Ted Turner
Atlanta Magazine In the forty years he has been in the public eye, Ted Turner has been called a genius, a jackass (by his father, among others), a visionary, childlike (a compliment), childish (not a compliment), a pioneer, a young maverick, an old lion, a straight...
Southern Company and Ted Turner Energize Cimarron Solar Facility
ATLANTA, Jan. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The clean and plentiful sunshine of New Mexico is now producing electricity for some 9,000 homes as the Cimarron Solar Facility has begun commercial operation. At 30 megawatts, Cimarron is among the nation's largest solar...
Green energy’s odd couple
Atlanta Business Chronicle How Ted Turner, David Ratcliffe became biz partners and pals. "Hi partner.” That’s the way environmentalist Ted Turner greeted David Ratcliffe, the recently retired CEO of Southern Co., at a meeting in Turner’s Atlanta office building on...
Turner starts solar project
Atlanta Business Chronicle One of the most highly sought-after parking lots in downtown Atlanta is being turned into a solar energy demonstration project. Ted Turner, one of Atlanta’s most notable business and philanthropic leaders, has built-out the first phase of...
Ted Turner on CNBC Titans – Part 1
The Turner family; Ted Turner's childhood; Ted takes over his father's business Turner Advertising Company, then purchases Channel 17 (WTCG) (Interviews by President Jimmy Carter and baseball legend Hank Aaron).
Ted Turner on CNBC Titans – Part 2
Turner wins the America's Cup; CNN's beginnings; Turner creates the Goodwill Games (interviews with President Jimmy Carter, T. Boone Pickens and Former CNN president Tom Johnson).
Ted Turner on CNBC Titans – Part 3
Ted Turner on expanding his cable empire, his marriage to Jane Fonda and his restaurant chain Ted's Montana Grill.
